Claude 3.7 Sonnet, OpenAI's GPT 4.5 and Microsoft's Quantum Chip

This week was bonkers in terms of tech announcements in the field of AI and quantum computing.

• Anthropic announced its latest and best Claude model yet — Claude 3.7 Sonnet on February 25, 2025.
• OpenAI jumped on the bandwagon and announced GPT 4.5 — its latest and largest model on February 27, 2025.
• To make things more interesting, Microsoft unveiled its first quantum chip — Majorana 1.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

Anthropic leveled up their game by introducing Claude 3.7 Sonnet and people are satisfied with it. It's a reasoning model with thinking capabilities which works almost every time. Some users are not satisfied with it because of prompting issues, but I think you can get away with it by tweaking your prompt.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is priced at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens — including reasoning tokens.

Along with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Anthropic also announced its new product "Claude Code" — a CLI tool to assist you locally in your project. It can create/edit files, debug, fix/write tests, work with git to commit and create PRs, and provide suggestions based on your repository. More like cursor, but inside terminal.

However, it comes with certain technical overhead. Here are the minimum requirements to run Claude Code:

• Minimum 4 gigs (GB) of RAM
• Internet Connectivity
• Supports macOS 10.15+ and Ubuntu 20.04+/Debian 10+. For Windows, it requires WSL (Windows Subsystem For Linux).

Note that it's in research preview. File any bugs you find on their github repository.

OpenAI's GPT-4.5

OpenAI claims GPT-4.5 is their largest and expensive model yet. And yes, at $200 a month, it's crazy expensive. The API pricing for GPT-4.5 is also expensive, with $75 per million input tokens and a whopping $150 per million output tokens. But, does it stay true to its pricing?

I haven't personally tried it yet, but having read first impressions from people who tried it on X (twitter), it seems to me that GPT 4.5 really good at creative tasks such as writing, but not so good at coding.

Just like Claude Code, GPT-4.5 is still in research preview, so it may get better over time.

Microsoft's Majorana 1

With the unveiling of Majorana 1 — Microsoft's Quantum Chip, Microsoft is now in the game of quantum supremacy along with Google and IBM.

Microsoft claims to have achieved quantum breakthrough by discovering a new state of matter known as topological superconductivity.

Majorana 1 works with "topological qubits" which store information in topological properties of a physical system, instead of properties of a single particle.

I am more interested in seeing the practical use cases of it, especially in the world of AI. The integration of quantum computing with the AI world is yet to be seen.